Tempting fate

Of course, pronouncing it the Year of One’s Health is only tempting the fates. I should remember things like that.

New Orleans was fabulous – we did lots of amazing things. We drank wine while being pelted with rain. We …

Library School Was Helpful: Card Sorting

Card Sorting is a very specific method employed when you need to come up with a structure or architecture for a web site. You write out all of the pertinent bits on cards and then have stakeholders or users sort …

More! Beauty!

I’m still riding the safe cosmetics/products high over here. I think I’ve wrapped up replacing and rebuilding my bathroom. I’ve found some really great things throughout this process, and I’m feeling good about spending my money this way.

I’m going …

The Year of My Health, Self-Proclaimed

I’ve been having loads of headaches lately, and I’m not allowed to take Imitrex anymore because it doesn’t play nicely with Prozac. In addition to this, I’ve had pretty crummy tummy goings-on. Nothing overly dramatic, just feeling crampy and generally …

3-D Herzog

I’ve gone and done that dummy move again, where I see something amazing, mean to write about, start a draft, then forget about it. By the time I post these things, they have faded, or I can’t find the right …

SIFF so far this year

Behr came to visit a few weeks ago, and her last day here coincided with the opening of SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival). We decided to do a super movie day which involved watching a movie in the morning, having …

Girl You Know It’s True

The “Cringe” edition of This American Life (#182) is fantastic. The best part is Ira Glass talking about interviewing M*A*S*H actors when he was a rookie journalist. Just typing about it is making me cringe and smile at …

Safe Face

I have not blogged in forever and a day. A lot of that is because I’ve been busy putting together our wedding invite zines, and because I finally caved and made a wedding website. I really wanted to avoid that …